The ITV1 Bingo a long running late night show called Bingo Night Live has effectively been axed as part of wide-ranging cuts across ITV heavily featured in yesterday's news reports. Papers in the UK today revealed up to 80 jobs will be cut from the recently formed ITV consumer division, as ITV scales back its regional web TV series ITV Local and parts of its mobile operation.ITV Play will apparently be scrapped as well, ITV Play produced Bingo Night Live and online bingo price comparison site Price Terrier. A second series of Bingo Night Live had been commissioned following the success of the first show, which ran last year between June and November, but this has now been cancelled following today's announcement.
Last August, each episode of the show was encouraging between 3,000 and 5,000 new players to register their details every day on ITV.com for the competition, with up to 60,000 people downloading free bingo numbers each day. Since its inception in 2005, ITV Play is estimated to have created revenues in excess of £50m for the broadcaster.
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